The Torah’s True Age: OLDER Than You Think! | Inspiring Philosophy

Jewish and Christian Traditions ascribe the first five books of the Bible to Moses a prophet of God who led the Hebrews out of Egypt in the 13th century BC but many scholars have rejected this tradition and even doubt if Moses ever existed instead the five books of Moses or the penet as it's more properly

called must have been written much later and were originally separate sources they were then compiled at a later point and attributed to a mythical figure called Moses allegedly we are told all the evidence shows the petuk is a late document and can not possibly date back to the time of Moses but within the scholarly World

some interesting evidence has come forward several aspects of the petuk suggest very ancient Traditions that could not have developed during later periods of Israel's history and when we combine all this data We Come Away with a powerful cumulative case that the penet is very ancient in much of it could date to the

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Moses theories of how the penit came to its final form are a dime a dozen there are various documentary fragmentary and supplementary hypotheses some of them combine elements from these three categories and also various redactional stages have been proposed but most deposit that the earliest sections of the penit were not written until long after the time of

Moses and then it did not reach its final form until centuries later many scholars suggest that there were early texts written in the Northern Kingdom of Israel and the southern Kingdom of Judah at later points like during the Babylonian exile or after these texts were edited and then combined to fit together into a single cohesive